Motivational Quotes

Humor

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

- Rosten, Leo

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

2.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Hughes, Langston

3.

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

Smith, Alfred E.

4.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Eco, Umberto

5.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Fredrich

6.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

7.

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

Socrates

8.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Albee, Edward

9.

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Truman, Harry S

10.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Conrad, Joseph

11.

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

Martin, Steve

12.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

13.

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

Salma Hayek

14.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

15.

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Kleiser, Grenville

16.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

17.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

18.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Martin, Steve

19.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

20.

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

Diller, Phyllis

21.

Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.

22.

The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.

Kathryn L. Nelson

23.

Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

24.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

25.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

26.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Muir, Frank

27.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people --that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

Thurber, James

28.

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Nelson, Lord

29.

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

Keillor, Garrison

30.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.

Clark, Dick

31.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Trilling, Lionel

32.

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Maclaine, Shirley

33.

There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

Joubert, Joseph

34.

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

35.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

36.

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

37.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

39.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Twain, Mark

40.

Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor.

41.

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

Horace

42.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

43.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

44.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

45.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Colby, Frank Moore

46.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

47.

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

John Kenneth Galbraith

48.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

49.

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

La Bruyere, Jean De

50.

If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.

Williamson, Nicol

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